Chris Cutrone is a college educator, writer, and media artist, committed to critical thinking and artistic practice and the politics of social emancipation. He returns to the Zero Books channel to discuss his 2014 essay "Defending Marxist Hegelianism against a Marxist critique” and to discuss the role that critical theory should play in the struggle for socialism.<br /><br />Suggest Reading:<br />Mike Macnair, "The philosophy trap" 11/21/13<br /><a href="https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/987/lukacs-the-philosophy-trap/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/987/lukacs-the-philosophy-trap/</a><br /><br />Chris Cutrone, "Defending Marxist Hegelianism against a Marxist critique" 8/11/11 <br /><a href="https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/878/defending-marxist-hegelianism-against-a-marxist-cr/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/878/defending-marxist-hegelianism-against-a-marxist-cr/</a><br /><br />Georg Lukacs, Original Preface (1922) to History and Class Consciousness (1923)<br /><a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/preface-1922.htm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/history/preface-1922.htm</a><br /><br />Why still read Lukács? The place of “philosophical” questions in Marxism by Chris Cutrone <br /><a href="https://platypus1917.org/2014/02/01/why-still-read-lukacs-the-place-of-philosophical-questions-in-marxism/?fbclid=IwAR0zldIwo9SjmzwtiayYmzd-uamuElpB-k-_iAP79vmm5hAFW1JXz5HlXnk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://platypus1917.org/2014/02/01/why-still-read-lukacs-the-place-of-philosophical-questions-in-marxism/?fbclid=IwAR0zldIwo9SjmzwtiayYmzd-uamuElpB-k-_iAP79vmm5hAFW1JXz5HlXnk</a><br /><br />Suggest Viewing:<br />"CPGB contra Lukács" teach-in at SAIC, 1/11/14<br /><a href="https://youtu.be/kKt3zePUtMI" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/kKt3zePUtMI</a><br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omr_2EUxzxw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Omr_2EUxzxw</a>